Clark Hall Pub has been officially resurrected with last Wednesday night marking the official re-opening of the “new” Clark Hall Pub.
The rainy weather didn’t stop students from all faculties from flocking to the top floor of Clark Hall to celebrate the start of the next chapter of the pub’s storied history.

The ubiquity of bottled water on the Queen’s campus may be a thing of the past if Students Taking Responsible Initiatives for a Viable Environment (STRIVE) has its way.
STRIVE chair Emily Merrick, ArtSci ’10, said the initiative is trying to reduce the number of one-time use bottles used at the University.

Moving the Queen’s Centre arena from main campus to west campus could mean massive savings for the University, said Ann Browne, associate vice-principal (facilities).
“There would be up to $20 million in savings by taking the arena from main to west campus and making it pre-engineered,” she said.

Green Party candidate for Kingston and the Islands Eric Walton believes his diverse personal and professional background has taught him to understand the “triple bottom line issues.” “Triple bottom line accounting is where you look at social, environmental and financial issues and look at how they relate to each other,” he said.

Member of Parliament for Kingston and the Islands for almost 20 years, the Honourable Peter Milliken is hoping to come back for a seventh consecutive term. “I’ve enjoyed being the MP. … I like the work. I enjoy dealing with my colleagues in Parliament and my constituents in Kingston.”

For NDP candidate for Kingston and the Islands Rick Downes, the personal is the political. This is a view he developed at a young age.

Kingston and the Islands has been Liberal since 1988, when now-incumbent MP Peter Milliken unseated Flora MacDonald. This year, Conservative Party candidate Brian Abrams is hoping to change that by running a high-profile campaign and letting people know he cares.

Post-secondary funding has taken a priority in this election, with the four major political parties banking on increased government spending on student loans and bursaries to win the votes of Canadian youth. Nick Kadysh, ArtSci ’08 and deputy campaign manager for Conservative candidate Brian Abrams, told the Journal in an e-mail the Harper government is planning a number of reforms to the current student loan framework.

Student trustee Michael Ceci said the Board of Trustees approved $7 million to be spent on the School of Kinesiology at the Board of Trustees meeting last Friday. The finance committee requested $7.5 million to be added to the Phase 1 budget, but the board refused to grant the total amount, Ceci said, to send a message of disapproval for exceeding the budget by such a large margin.

Student political leaders debated the issues at stake in the upcoming federal election in the JDUC on Oct. 1. The audience was mostly composed of students, and accordingly the debaters largely focused their discussion on education, the arts and the environment.

The emergency room at Kingston General Hospital received an all-time high influx of patients this Homecoming weekend, a trend doctors say is growing every year.
On the Friday and Saturday nights of Homecoming weekend, the emergency room at KGH received a total of 56 cases for severe intoxication and other injuries, five more than last year.

Kingston police are investigating an incident regarding a flag and posters they say contain homophobic and derogatory terms circulated during Homecoming weekend.
Kingston police media liaison Const. Mike Menor said a rainbow flag was discovered at the intersection of Barrie and Court streets with the words “Queer’s U” written on it.

Queen’s is greener than ever, according to a recent report by the Sustainable Endowments Institute.
The New College Sustainability Report Card, released annually from the Sustainable Endowments Institute, compares the environmental sustainability of universities across North America.

2008 appears to be a watershed year in the short history of the Homecoming Aberdeen Street party. At a press conference at City Hall Monday afternoon, Queen’s University and city officials expressed the need for a change in approach to dealing with the event.

Members of the AMS are no longer allowed to pick political favourites as the result of a motion passed at AMS General Assembly on Sept. 19.
The new policy prohibits the society’s council and officers from publicly supporting an individual candidacy and from taking a leave of absence in order to campaign for a particular team.